Discipline, Persistence, and Motivation
Discipline, Persistence, and Motivation
David Amerland on mental and physical persistence.
We must actively tie it into our identity and personal value system which means that we consciously must think about why we are doing what we do and what it really means to us. This allows the brain to ascertain what’s truly important in our world and allocate the resources necessary to make it happen.
Personal caveat: I need more sleep than three hours a day. :)
Originally shared by David Amerland
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Still feeling the fatigue but intellectually right now with all the coffee I have drunk today Zara Altair
ReplyDeleteDavid Amerland In awe of your ability to function happily and well without sleep! I need sleep. :D
ReplyDeleteZara Altair the body kinda resets after a while. After 6.00pm the fact that I have been on such little sleep time barely registers. I have found this fascinating. In theory I can go through the same cycle again now, I did it for about three months on four hours sleep a night as I wrote The Sniper Mind. I will be going to bed earlier tonight, about 1.00am but right now at 12.30am I feel totally peachy. :)
ReplyDeleteDavid Amerland We definitely want you peachy. I find the next day after short sleep I run on automatique. But! The day after the day after I feel the sleep deprivation.
ReplyDeleteZara Altair it has to be the way the brain handles the aftermath of the toxins that accumulate during the sleepless period. I might be a little bit of a mutant on that front. I first experimented with sleeplessness when I was 14 by staying up all night to look at the night sky. I kinda got hooked after that and I am sure there is an epigenetic factor in there somewhere. I find that if I sleep normally for a while, like when I am on holiday and can get in 7 hours of sleep every night I kinda feel like I need to stop doing that. :)
ReplyDeleteDavid Amerland Ah, skywatching. There's a motivator. My allnighters usually involved skywatching concluding with sunrise. :) Some people need less sleep, you seem to be one of them. For skywatching an important event, now I set an alarm, go to sleep, awake for the event, then go back to sleep.
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